Archive for the ‘Bakery’ Category
Gingernuts anyone?
Growing up, biscuits and cookies were graded on the following scientific scale in my household.
One for Taste, Two for crunch, and three for dunkability.
A biscuit just wasn’t a bisucit unless it had serious hang time in your cup once it was dunked into the steaming brew.
If it softened...
June 15th, 2010 | Bakery, Bridgets favorites, Cookies, New Zealand | Read More
Gingerbread Pudding
photo by andycoan
Its a kind of magic…
This nursery style pudding sits in the realm between steamed pudding and cake. A hybrid of the two eagerly combined to create a delectable pudding worthy enough to grace the dinner table, the kitchen table or the dining lap.
If you’re like me and find...
May 30th, 2010 | Bakery, Cakes, Desserts, Recipes | Read More
Chocolate Banana Bread (TDF)
This recipe is a first cousin to my wickedly popular Banana Coconut Bread with the point of difference being the use of dark chocolate over thread coconut.
Does it make a huge difference? You bet it does ! Its TDF (To Die For)
For a double whammy in my house, we like to to cut the bread into gorgeous...
February 9th, 2010 | Bakery, Chocolate, banana | Read More
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Nana’s “World Famous in New Zealand” Carrot Cake!
The day I found out my Grandma was gravely ill, I booked a flight back home to New Zealand to be with her and then went straight into the kitchen to soothe my soul by baking her “World Famous in New Zealand” Carrot Cake...
February 2nd, 2010 | Bakery, Cakes, New Zealand, Recipes | Read More
Banana and Coconut Bread
Squashed Banana’s aren’t just for slipping on…
As a chef, I’m loathe to throw out food!
Anything that resembles something edible gets used, re-hashed, turned into stock, made into muffins or smoked, deep fried, preserved and brined.
I once worked in a very busy breakfast restaurant...
January 26th, 2010 | Bakery, New Zealand, Recipes, breakfast | Read More
15 Twittarific Chocolate Cookie and Biscuit Recipes for Bookmarking
Welcome to the SECOND installment of The Internet Chef’s Salute to Chocolate!
In our first post , we discovered the virtues of a good Chocolate cake with a wonderfully inspiring list of 21 Twittalicious Chocolate Cake recipes that you need to try
Today I would like to tempt you even further...
September 10th, 2009 | Bakery, Bars and Slices, Bridgets favorites, Cookies, internet tips, twitter | Read More
Ultimate Top 30 Healthy Snack Recipe Posts on the Internet
From the depths of one small metal box covered with slender calved pink fairies and wistful looking princesses, I endeavour to supply my culinarily adventurous 7 year old daughter Coco with an appetizing array of lunch offerings for her to take to school each day.
I have discovered that the more...
June 30th, 2009 | Bakery, Bars and Slices, Bento box, Bridgets favorites, Cakes, Chips, Chocolate, Cookies, Crackers, Dehydrator, Fruit, Fruit leather, Granola Bars, Health benefits, Healthy, Muffins, New Zealand, Nuts, Peanut butter, Popcorn, Pulses, Recipes, Side dishes, Snacks, twitter | Read More
Top 25 Recipe Posts on Twitter That You Shouldn’t Be Without
Once upon a time… I began compiling recipe links that would flitter seductively past me in my twitter stream as I sat doodling and discussing the day’s happenings with friends and fellow foodies.
After much clicking and opening, I would downsize my favourite selection to a manageable...
June 22nd, 2009 | Accompaniments, Bakery, Burgers, Cakes, Cheese, Chocolate, Cookies, Dessert, Ice cream, Jam and Preserves, Meat, Pasta, Recipes, Rhubarb, Salad, Side dishes, Sweets, Top 25 recipe posts on Twitter, Uncategorized, Vegetables, twitter | Read More
Eating Aloha: Malasada’s Put the “OoooO” in Dough-nut
Eating Aloha… A Cooks Journey Through the Radiant Island of Oahu
The first sound that escaped my lips once my teeth sank through the buttery crisp shell into the warm moist interior of my first Malasada was Oooooh My Goodness… ‘OMG’ for short.
I was lounging on a park bench...
June 19th, 2009 | Bakery, Bridgets favorites, Eating Aloha, Food Folklore, Food History, Hawaii, Pastries, Recipes, Review, Sweets, kitchen equipment, twitter | Read More
Biscuits to Remember… Delicious ANZAC’s.
photo by Bridget
My great great Uncle, ‘Uncle Champ’ was one of the many hundreds of thousands of Australian and New Zealand men or ANZAC’s that went to war for their country in the early 1900′s .
Fortunately for our family, Uncle Champ came home after his tour of duty.
The word...
April 21st, 2009 | Bakery, Food History, Recipes | Read More
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Duck Fat Roasted Potatoes
September 1, 2010 17:09
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Seeing Double ~ Was I dining at Bills or Bambina?
August 31, 2010 20:08
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22,682 Nights Serving Burgers and Counting
August 30, 2010 18:08
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#JOQ with Food Blogger Ed Charles from “Tomato”
August 24, 2010 23:08
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Truffle Hunting in Western Australia
August 23, 2010 15:08